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Captain Untouchable
Jan 27th, 2009, 10:53:17 PM
At the minute, most of the fleeting type activity seems to be focused on big battles and things. That's awesome from the perspective of a Fleeter, but unfortunately they don't come around all that often. It can also get quite complicated when you start throwing in Fighter Pilots to the mix. Opportunities for a dedicated fighter mission have to be made up, and frankly that seems a little too much work for a case-by-case basis.

I had a semi-formed idea that would probably fit the bill (at least, it'll keep the Rebel pilots occupied), but it requires some Imperial stuff to happen and create the premise. Figured I'd come and run it by you guys, and see what y'all think. It's long, so I'll appologise for that in advance!


It strikes me that, with TaggeCo's leadership (Sanya and Gallus) so closely tied to the Empress, there's some potential for a shift in the alligance of business towards the new regime, particularly in terms of the Corporate Sector. I dunno if you're familiar with how the Corporate Sector works; basically, a bunch of big companies buy out patches of space (including stars, planets, etc) to set up various business ventures - factories, research centers, fancy executive housing; the works. The Corporate Sector Authority exists as a quazi-government business to deal with all the political and security problems.

The leader of the CSA is voted in by the leaders of the businesses that have invested in the Sector. To cut a long story short, my plan would revolve around someone like TaggeCo proposing the appointment of an Imperial as the new leader of that government. Combine their business might with some behind the scenes encouragement from the Empire and/or Black Nebula, and the Corporate Sector would eventually vote itself into Imperial subjugation.

With a new "Moff" appointed for the Sector, the plan comes into action. In exchange for the kind of ships that the Empire would usually assign to defend one of its sectors (Kuat Drive Yards and Rendili StarDrive are listed investors in the Corporate Sector, so some sort of "discount" could be arranged), the Empire would effectively put the CSA Security Division out of a job, in terms of Sector defense.

Instead, the Security Division - which uses the same sort of mostly outdated ships as the Rebel Alliance - would be able to go out and protect the space lanes around Imperial territory, much like the old Sector Rangers from pre-Reset. At the minute, the Rebels are supposed to be conducting various raids along those supply lines; the Security Division's ships make them quite well-suited to defending convoys and such. Also, because of the industrial power that the Corporate Sector has there's the possibility of them churning out Droid Starfighters (or even having bought-out some of the ones the CIS had, after the Clone Wars ended), so there isn't actually any loss of sentient life: just some easily-replaceable technology.

Not only does this provide a fairly disposable enemy for Rogue Squadron and small-scale Rebel fleeting, but it also provides a quazi-Imperial entity that functions a bit more like the Rebel Alliance. People who want to Fleet as a "bad guy", but don't want to necessarily be a staunch believer in the Alliance, or want to be non-Human, that sort of thing; it gives them an alternative, without necessarily setting up a third faction.

On top of that, the use of Droid Fighters by the "Sector Rangers", combined with the Imperial cooperation in the whole shindig could potentially lead to the development of the TIE/D fighters for the Empire, which could deployed similarly. I also like the idea of the Droid Fighters maybe being a bit smarter than now - maybe they "download" and reincarnate like the Cylon Raiders from the new series, so it's possible to get veteran units that are harder to destroy?


Told you it was long. Thoughts? Ideas? Scathing and soul-destroying criticisms? ;)

Istina Chriferre
Jan 27th, 2009, 11:01:06 PM
This is, in my opinion, a great idea. It does all the things you mentioned, and allows for a number of people (bounty hunters, assassins, and the like) to move around in more places, perhaps, than in Imperial, and Black Sun circles. Lots of intrigue going on in those coporate places as well.

And it gives me a way to work in a Gossam character that's currently sitting in My Documents with nowhere to go.

Dasquian Belargic
Jan 28th, 2009, 05:11:57 AM
Sounds nifty :thumbup

Captain Untouchable
Jan 28th, 2009, 02:03:45 PM
Hadn't even thought of it adding more scope for actual Black Sun stuff as well; that's a great idea. Nebula is stirring up a bit of activity in the wake of Tarkin's ascension; Black Sun probably already has some business ventures out in the Sector, so maybe we could treat it as a microchosm for the galactic BS/BN turf war?

Sanya Tagge
Jan 31st, 2009, 11:09:53 AM
Let me know how/where/when I can involve Sanya, if you have any threads you'd like to do relating to this :)

Captain Untouchable
Jan 31st, 2009, 01:36:23 PM
Will do. :) Just running a couple of ideas past a couple of peeps, and then I'll shoot over a group PM or something.

Aside from Russard Industries and TaggeCo, are there any other player-associated businesses about, that you can think of?

Tell Cho
Jan 31st, 2009, 01:39:49 PM
Corporate Sector Fleeter Character ready. I might even perhaps give him more of a backstory, because I love the cane.

Sanya Tagge
Feb 1st, 2009, 07:24:57 AM
I can't think of any other player run businesses, unless you would count the Black Sun/Nebula? I'm assuming they have various legal fronts to their operations.

Captain Untouchable
Feb 1st, 2009, 07:30:17 AM
Just to keep y'all in the loop: at the minute I'm trying to get in touch with everyone who might concievably want to get involved in this sort of thing, and point them in this general direction. The aim is to start up as thread over the next few days that'll get the ball rolling on the political side of things.

So far, the Direx Board consists of:

CSA Employees
Delgado Xaanan - Imperial Advisor (soon to be Moff)
Tell Cho - Auditor-General (ic. Intelligence, Security)

Investors
Gallus Tagge - representing TaggeCo.
Moff Yeart Quen - representing Kuat Drive Yards
Jason Russard, the Younger - representing Russard Industries
Sorsha Kasajian - representing various businesses (& Black Nebula)

I've tapped Black Nebula, Black Sun, and a couple of other people; I'll amend the above list once I hear back from them.

I would ideally like to have a Prex in there, if possible - that's the Vice President / Chief-of-Staff type role. The job will be a tad different to how it was portrayed in the EU, but I'm sure you guys have probably seen 24, the West Wing, or enough other political type shows to have a pretty good idea of what you might be doing!

Sanya Tagge
Feb 1st, 2009, 07:32:39 AM
Gallus would probably represent TaggeCo, rather than Sanya. He handles all of the companies business, really :)

Captain Untouchable
Feb 1st, 2009, 07:53:13 AM
You sure that's not just an excuse to avoid Sanya having to sit next to Yeart? ;)

Delgado Xaanan
Feb 12th, 2009, 09:17:54 AM
Okay - so I finally got around to setting up an account to play the Imperial Advisor / Moff guy. I still haven't heard back from everyone, but we seem to have a fair few people already - are you guys ready to get started now, or do you want some time to get other hectic bits settled before we move on?

Dasquian Belargic
Feb 12th, 2009, 09:20:47 AM
I'm good to go.

Park Kraken
Feb 12th, 2009, 12:00:38 PM
I have another idea for a "Pesky Rebel" thread involving my Rebel fleeting character, and possibly a starfighter pilot as well. The basic idea is that Anne takes her small taskforce and starts raiding Imperial freighters in a particular area, using Y-wings escorted by X-wings to launch magnetic pulse torpedoes to disable the freighter, then space bombs to destroy it.

The tactic is countered by creating a convoy in the area, which is precisley what Anne is looking for. The entire taskforce jumps into battle the convoy, facing down an escort of roughly equal strength.

In a running battle, Anne's taskforce manages to defeat the escort and nab a few freighters, although most of the convoy manages to escape. A victory, but not as complete as it could have been.

Captain Untouchable
Feb 12th, 2009, 02:32:27 PM
That could potentially factor in with the Corporate Sector side of things, if you're willing to have them go up against a CSA escort, rather than an Imperial one. There's actually a very similar plan on the backburner for a series of similar encounters using the MC40a in my Fleeting character's group, and possibly Rogue Squadron as well.

We probably need to get the political fiddling sorted out before hand though; I'll try and get something started over the next few days, if an opportunity presents.

Delgado Xaanan
Feb 16th, 2009, 05:58:45 PM
The thread is posted! (An Errant Venture (http://www.sw-fans.net/forum/showthread.php?t=19267))

I don't know if you guys all want to arrive from Imperial Center together on the same transport, or want to drift in as and when you feel like it. So that we aren't all wandering about aimlessly to find other, lets assume there's a buffet or something set up somewhere nice in the starport, or something. Nothing can go wrong if we start proceedings with mini pizzas and sausages on cocktail sticks!

Gallus Tagge
Feb 17th, 2009, 11:30:59 AM
I take it we can just arrive in any order we like?

Tell Cho
Feb 17th, 2009, 11:49:14 AM
Indeed. I would have posted already if it were not for that question of an order of postings.

Captain Untouchable
Feb 17th, 2009, 01:00:09 PM
Yeah, feel free to turn up as and when you want. I'm not 100% sure who's coming yet, so once everyone has arrived and what not we'll work out an order then. >_<